Gas leak causes evacuation in Appleton

8:33 PM,
Dec. 19, 2012

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The Post-Crescent

Residents living in apartment buildings along Ashbury Drive in north Appleton were forced to evacuate their homes tonight after a car struck one building and caused a gas leak.

A woman driving a Volkswagen Jetta in a parking lot told police she mixed up her foot pedals and punched the gas, accelerating the vehicle into the side of the building, said Lt. Steve Diedrich of the Appleton Police ...